Turbine Water Ingress Prevention systems are primarily concerned with the prevention of water damage to steam turbines used for fossil fuel-fired electric power generation.
Any connection to a turbine is a potential source of water damage either by induction from external equipment or by the accumulation of condensed steam.
There is no piece of equipment in most plants more complex than the steam turbine/generator system, which is supported by many subsystems. Safe and effective operation of a turbine/generator requires that the designers of Water Ingress Prevention systems have a good understanding of the turbine/generator unit and its subsystems.
Steam-turbine damage due to water induction is relatively common in the electric generation and process industries, as the majority of water ingress damage to steam turbines occurs during unit start-up and shut-down.
B&W has engineered, designed, built and commissioned a number of these systems satisfying ASME Standard Number TDP-1 and TWDPS-1, "Recommended Practices for the Prevention of Water Damage of Steam Turbines Used for Electric Power Generation," as well as other related national and international standards. FPS's Aquarian Water Detection products form one of the primary data sources.
A team of highly trained engineers and designers will review and develop an understanding of the design features and operation of your steam generator and the associated turbine. We will then engineer, design and build a system to suit the layout and operation of your plant that will protect the turbine against water induction. Operating precautions, codes of practice and standards for these systems are well understood by the engineers at B&W.
A CRT graphical display will be part of the supplied system to provide the operator with a pictorial overview of the system, clearly identifying the sites of all the Aquarian Detection probes. Critical and warning alarms indicating the presence of water and /or associated valve positions will become part of the operator interface.
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